Answer to Question #76479 in Differential Equations for Salil Gupta

Question

Reduce the following PDE to a set of three ODEs by the method of separation of
variables (1/r)(∂/∂r)(r(∂V/∂r)+(1/r^2)(∂^2V/∂θ^2)+(∂^2V/∂z^2)+(k^2)V=0